Nevermind Cardinal Law - the PEDOPHILES have a better chance of getting into Heaven than Fr. Martin. Christ repeatedly warned the consequences of the spiritual crime of misleading millions of souls.

Nothing like a mean, spiteful apostate.

CJ Doyle gave an outstanding statement on Cardinal Law's life and death which I publish below in its entirety.

CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE MOURNS

DEATH OF BERNARD, CARDINAL LAW

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today is mourning the death of the former Archbishop of Boston, Bernard, Cardinal Law, who died in Rome shortly after midnight, following a brief hospitalization. Law was 86.

Born in Mexico of American parents, Law, a Harvard graduate, was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Natchez-Jackson, Mississippi in 1961. In 1963, he became editor of the diocesan newspaper, where he received death threats for his support for the civil rights of African Americans.

Named Vicar-General of Natchez-Jackson in 1971, Law was appointed Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1973, serving until 1984. In 1975, he welcomed and resettled 167 priests, brothers, and novices of the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix, who as Vietnamese boat people, were fleeing the Communist conquest of their country. Law gave them a vacant seminary to serve as their new home.

In 1981, the Holy See appointed Law Ecclesiastical Delegate for the Pastoral Provision, which permitted married Anglican clergymen to become Catholic priests. This was the beginning of a long movement which culminated in the establishment of Anglican Catholic Ordinariates by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011.

Appointed Archbishop of Boston by Pope Saint John Paul II in January, 1984, Law was elevated to the College of Cardinals in May, 1985. In his homily at his installation as archbishop on March 23, 1984, Law described abortion as "the primordial darkness of our time...the cloud that shrouds the conscience of our world."

A month later, Law attended a pro-life rally in front of the Massachusetts State House. In 1986, he supported a proposed initiative amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution, which would stop the public funding of abortion, earning him a rebuke from Planned Parenthood, which claimed Law came to Boston "looking for a heavyweight fight" on this issue. His pro-life advocacy would also be criticized by former Lt. Governor Thomas P. O'Neill III, who characterized Law's views as offensive.

In 1985, in a speech in Latin at the Synod of Bishops in Rome, Law was one of two bishops to advocate that a new, universal catechism be issued, the first since the Roman Catechism, promulgated in 1570 by Saint Pius V, following the Council of Trent. This resulted in the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, promulgated by John Paul II in 1992. Law was given the task of overseeing the English language translation.

In April, 1985, Law wrote, at the request of the bishops conference, a letter to every American prelate detailing the findings of a conference committee which he headed, which declared that Freemasonry was "incompatible with Christian Faith and practice."

In January, 1988, Law, consistent with his longstanding civil rights position, issued a letter which was read at all parishes in Boston, urging the integration of public housing projects in the city. He became however, the first, and to date, the only Catholic prelate in the modern history of Boston to acknowledge that working class Catholic ethnics had, in controversies such as these, legitimate concerns regarding crime and public safety.

In 1989, Law opposed the so-called gay rights law, which made homosexuals a protected class in Massachusetts civil rights legislation. Following an editorial critical of the measure in the archdiocesan newspaper, The Pilot, Saint Thomas More Chapel, located next to the newspaper office, was vandalized.

In April, 1990, Law became one of the minority of American bishops who implemented John Paul II's decree Ecclesia Dei, which permitted a modest restoration of the traditional Latin Mass.

In June, 1990, while Law was presiding at ordination ceremonies at Holy Cross Cathedral, a mob of militant homosexuals surrounded the building and attempted to gain access. Unable to physically disrupt the liturgy, they attempted to acoustically disrupt it with drums, whistles and boat horns. As the ceremonies ended, they surged forward at police barriers shouting obscenities at worshipers and throwing condoms at priests.

In April, 1991, Law, through his aide, Msgr. William Murphy, asked the League's predecessor organization to oppose a domestic partners ordinance under consideration by the Boston City Council. Although The Boston Globe predicted it would pass by a comfortable margin, it was narrowly defeated following the personal lobbying of Council members by Auxiliary Bishop Lawrence Riley.

Law had a contentious relationship with Jesuit administered Boston College during his episcopate, warning that BC was in danger of losing its Catholic identity. It was Law who intervened to prevent liberal theologian Richard P. McBrien from teaching there. He also once described the Catholic Theological Society of America as a "theological wasteland."

From 1995 to 1999, the Archdiocese of Boston, under Law's leadership, supported the efforts of the Catholic Action League to resist, successfully, a second attempt to institute a domestic partners program in Boston, this time by Mayor Thomas Menino.

In 1999, Law opposed the nomination of Margaret Marshall as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth, saying she was "open to serious charges of anti-Catholicism." As Chief Justice in 2003, Marshall would write the decision in the Goodridge case, inventing a constitutional right to "marriage" between two persons of the same gender. In it, she asserted that the belief in the universal, millenia old definition of marriage was "rooted in persistent prejudices against persons who are (or who are believed to be) homosexual."

In the late 1990's, Law told the story that he was the object of attempted extortion. According to his account, he was warned, that if he did not cease to oppose the goals of the homosexual movement, the homosexual priests in the Archdiocese would be exposed. Law said he rebuffed his blackmailer, telling him to go ahead.

Law's most egregious error, and the one that cost him his position and his reputation, was to follow the practice of his two immediate predecessors, Cardinals Cushing and Medeiros---under whom four-fifths of accused priests in Boston operated---and view the molestation of minors by homosexual predators in the priesthood as a psychiatric disorder requiring treatment, and offering the possibility of rehabilitation, rather than understanding it for what it actually was, a monstrous crime which deserved immediate prosecution and prolonged incarceration. In this the archdiocese did not behave in a manner inconsistent with other institutions of its time, though it should have.

In 2002, members of the plaintiff bar, some of whom had reached settlements with the archdiocese, combined with The Boston Globe, a newspaper which celebrated predators like Paul Shanley, and which had spent thirty years attacking the Catholic Church, Catholic moral teaching, and Catholic political leaders, to expose all of this.

For eleven months in 2002, Law was subjected to a daily cascade of uniformly negative media coverage, driven by the Globe, that is unmatched even in the era of Donald Trump. After hundreds of articles, columns, op-eds, editorials, letters to the editor and television and radio reports, Law's position became untenable.

Meanwhile, victims groups with bullhorns, bent on confrontation, besieged Holy Cross Cathedral, taunting and harassing innocent Catholics going to Mass, who had never done them any harm. Parishioners were forced to walk into church through a police cordon. Mothers were told through megaphones to cover their children's genitals, because Catholic priests were abroad. The cathedral was denounced as a "house of rape."

Poor Hispanics entering Mission Church were greeted with shouts from the sidewalk of "Check their green cards!" and elderly female secretaries at the chancery were forced to pass angry, jeering protesters. This writer recalls one victims spokesman shouting profanities at him on Commonwealth Avenue.

Fifty-eight priests---at least one of whom was a personal friend and supervisor of defrocked predator Paul Shanley---called upon Law to resign. Massachusetts Attorney-General Thomas Reilly convened a grand jury to investigate the archdiocese. Law, who had repeatedly and profusely apologized for his failures, resigned on December 13, 2002, begging forgiveness, once again. He was not to receive any.

Reilly who, unethically, released a grand jury report condemning Law, later admitted that the former archbishop had broken no laws, and could not be prosecuted.

In 2004, Law was appointed Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome. He retired in 2011.

Law was, and continues to be, an object of demonization unprecedented even in the cases of prelates like Rembert Weakland, who actually committed acts of molestation themselves. On the day of Cardinal Law's death, attorney Mitchell Garabedian held a press conference to denounce Law once again, along with the "trillion dollar corporation called the Catholic Church." During the event, victims talked of having a party, of Law burning in hell, and how they considered "hunting him down in Rome and getting him."

One victim recounted how he began a meeting with Law by shouting an obscenity at him. Remarkably, Law continued the meeting. This forbearance did not constrain the victim from suggesting that the Cardinal's body be chopped up and dropped in the ocean.

Whatever the derelictions of Bernard, Cardinal Law, this much ought to be said. With Cardinal Law, you never had to wonder where he stood on a public controversy. He was never afraid to enter the fray when he conceived it his duty to do so, and he never hesitated to defend the teachings of the Church which he headed in Boston. Cardinal Law never thought silence was the better part of valor, that speaking the truth was impolitic, or that standing up for what he believed in was divisive.

Law never practiced the fawning, obsequious deference towards politicians who reject Catholic morality that seems to obsess our prelates today. In 1990, then state senator (and future governor) Paul Cellucci was disinvited from speaking at Hudson Catholic High School, because of his support for legal abortion.

At Cardinal John O'Connors' funeral in May of 2000, Law garnered thunderous applause when he said the Church "must always remain unambiguously pro-life," as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Al Gore sat stone faced in the congregation. The current regime of awards, honors and platforms to opponents of Catholic teaching was not the norm under Cardinal Law.

Nor should anyone forget what Cardinal O'Malley said of Cardinal Law today: "He was well known for visiting the sick, the dying and the bereaved at all hours of the night and day, a ministry that extended to the rich and the poor, the young and the elderly, and to people of all faiths."

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

S, I got my info straight from the files. There are exceptions of course. At risk family doesn't make them incompetant. Widows, widowers, divorced, addictions, poverty, predators did not and do not pick children of families of parents who are helicoptering because they don't want to get caught. I didn't think this fact is controversial?

I get it, your blog. To compare consensual adult sex in order to land a job with the rape of boys by priests is absurd. It also represents a fundamental misunderstanding of exactly what happened to The Church since Vatican 2. I am sorry you are stuck in an old paradigm, but you are.

No victim of Harvey Weinstein would ever say the sex was consensual. That's a real disservice to victims of that predator. There is far more going on in Hollywood than Harvey Weinstein and his adult victims. The pedophilia is endemic. The real problem is victims do not call police. They don't tell, chiefly because the predator has some kind of control over them. Has nothing to do with Vatican II .

Many sexual predator priests were caught and the family of victims did not call the police. They took money and kept quiet about it, knowing what would happen to other boys. You can't say the Cardinal knew but the parents who took money didn't.

I don't think anyone with the bests interest of children in mind would say they think the right thing to do is to take money and not call the police . If you agree to that, you agree what they did was wrong and put other children in danger. Any way you slice it, it comes out the same.

Oh ya, were we talking about Catholic sexual morality or hollywoods? Wiestien is a creep he never presented himself as in persona Christi did he? Your plaid skirt morality may seem righteous but its an anachronism. The world don'T Work that way, nor did it ever, sorry. The police chief in my town is a free mason. For real. Its ALL about Vatican 2 sister. Trust me. No comparison between the culpability of a parent of a victim and the informed boss of the diddler. None. Law is an icon, think about it.

You are barking up rhe wrong tree. The root cause is the issue. A diddler is gonna diddle. The demographic of the victims is like asking the girl who gets raped "well, what were you wearing?" 81% or shall we say ' the vaat majoriy" of the priest rapists were sodomites. BTW - at-risk family and helocopter foolishness implies some how more prudent protection would have stopped the crime. The thug just moves on to the next 7-11 to rob. As long as you have boys and sodomites you are gonna have problems. Ann Barhardt is a good place to start.

We are talking about sexual abuse - whether its in Hollywood, the Church, the family, at is irrelevant. It's an abuse of power and it's demonic in nature. For some reason, you want to insulate parents who knew and let an abuser rape other teenagers from culpability and put all the blame on "Law". But there isn't a dimes worth of difference.

S, the "root cause" is mental illness, the majority of which is caused by sin. The Sacraments have every power necessary to stop it.

You better believe more prudent protection of children keeps them from being victimized by pedophiles.

When a thug wants to steal a wallet, they look for distracted women with open pocketbooks. Vigilant Women with wallets nowhere in sight don't get on their radar.

Cyberspace thieves who want to empty your bank account look for vulnerable people. Old people, stupid people, people not savvy to the wiles of thieves. People savvy to the wiles of thieves are not going to take the bait.

The same holds true for sexual abusers. If you think they approach women and children from families who have their act together, you are kidding yourself. We ask too many questions. We decline invitations that would put our child into a position where they could be taken advantage of. We show up unannounced. They are not going to pick our kids.

Here are three mothers:

One mother's child comes home with an invitation to go to an overnight birthday party of a classmate the mother doesn't know. Every girl in the class was invited. She lets her go.

The second mother doesn't know the family, but looks into the situation and learns the mother is shaking up with her current boyfriend she met in the town barroom a few months ago. She declines the invitation.

Another mother in the class looks declines invitations of any sleepovers, much less sleepovers in houses of people they don't know.

One mother here is not on the ball and she is putting her children at risk. She may be niave or she may be broken - she certainly doesn't deserve to be blamed for the rape -- but the fact of the matter is, she didn't protect her child like the other two mothers who have a zero risk of the boyfriend doing something regrettable.

You are trying to say how parents act and choices they make doesn't make a difference in the safety of their children - which is a dangerous delusion.

When person wants to sexually abuse, they look for situations where people are vulnerable and distracted. Big families, families with a dad or mom or dad and mom who booze it up, divorced families, families where both parents work and the children are not being vigilantly supervised, families who are grieving the loss of a loved one, dysfunctional families--all at risk.

In a perfect would, should wounded people be sought out by predators? Of course not. That is against every virtue. Sociopaths are not stupid people. They are calculating and cunning pathological liars.